But elon burned it down before he realised

Its also that he started meddling in car design, manufacturing, and roll out of his charging stations even before he went full nazi. Without exception, every recent decision hes made for those three areas has been fucking awful.

The cars have never been comparable build quality to established European (ICE) cars available for the same money, but somehow build quality has gotten worse. Then there are the just plain dumb design decisions hes forced, such as the yoke being the only steering wheel available for one model, till dealerships pushed back to at least offer a round wheel as an option. Indicators as buttons on the wheel. Gear select (yes its technically direction selection in an EV) on the big screen with no physical controls, some cars don’t even have a dashboard in front of you, speed in on the tablet. 100% of everything to do with the cybertruck.100% of everything to do with his self driving system, no lidar is the dumbest hill he will die on.

Manufacturing its been a constant push to reduce costs at the expense of quality, failure to deal with systemic racism, labor law violations (particularly in Europe) and a ramping up for cybertruck production for demand that just was not ever there. They had to discount the dumb thing almost day one.

Charging stations he fired the entire team for the only thing that made Tesla unique in 2024, then hired a bunch of them back as he realized he fucked up. Instead he should have been doubling spend on chargers as this is the path to EV adoption, especially of Teslas, and other manufacturers in the US were lining up to pay him to use the charging standard, it could have been a significant revenue stream.

The icing on the cake is that they have failed to develop new models and people are sick of the old ones. Experienced manufacturers know that the majority of their line up needs refreshing every few years, Elons failed to do this.

The guy couldn’t manage a Banana stand.

That its being co hosted will backfire on the US. If it was just the US and nobody turned up they can and will blame football for that rather than their own idiocy, but because Mexico and Canada are also hosting matches if they get great attendance then its clearly an issue with the US.

If you want to go, go to the matches in Mexico or Canada, spend your money there.

MFs who support this usually point to current UK private healthcare costs and imply it will still cost the same once the majority of healthcare is funded privately rather than via taxes. This is always completely ignorant that private healthcare costs so little in the UK compared to the US because its subsidized by the NHS, the NHS provides much of the more expensive services still, and private has to compete against the NHS on cost as best it can.

Once we have a free market for private healthcare costs to the end user will rapidly balloon.

The real reason he will justify this bullshit like that is because he has to admit hes racist otherwise, “if hes brown I want him gone from my town” basically. Ask him if we should be deporting white right wing gang members based on their tattoos and show him cropped photos of Hegseths tats.

The problem is that the battery is usually half the cost of manufacturing the car, larger batteries still means more expense, at least until whatever replaces the current battery tech is mainstream.

Britians cheapest brand new EV that isnt limited to 28mph top speed is the Dacia Spring at £11k. $17k is about £13k. UK average commuting distance is a round trip of about 40 miles. In an ICE car thats costing about £6 a day, vs. 70p in an EV that can charge at home overnight. My kids basically get brand new (small) EVs for free vs. running an older ICE that I would gift them just on the fuel saving.

Obviously not everyone can change at home, but this will change the more people push for it.

People like Wes Streeting want to import your health care system. It’s long been the dream of people like him to do so. It’s the most valuable thing we have on the table.

Its always a brand new system with a massive scope as well so that it costs an arm and two legs, and is so over complicated it never gets finished.

Meanwhile we already have a universal voluntary ID system that half of all adults already own and the department that is responsible for it, does it on a small profit.

If its just about ID then get the DVLA to start issuing non driving licenses in a different colour and speed up their digital role out.

Do they speak Spanish? The English version of them make no effort to learn to speak Spanish, or integrate outside their own communities, then make videos about people doing that who go to England.

It wont be allowed to be marked as either from the US or chlorinated if it ever does come over. The people paying Trump to push this know that if the UK public can spot it they wont buy it so any deal would mandate that it doesn’t have to be stamped.

Which ones aren’t? Also deciding to copy dumb ideas from elsewhere is even more dumb as someone else did the alpha testing for you, showed it was dumb, and you still copied it.

I forgot the yoke instead of a wheel. That’s another Elon special.

Buttons for indicators I know are on modern ferraris, I can’t afford one but I still wouldn’t buy one because of them. Try using buttons on a steering wheel when doing a right at a roundabout, just the dumbest shit.

BYD is eating everyone’s lunch at the bottom not just Tesla.

Tesla could have prospered by sticking to the mid range but their build quality is appalling even for a lower mid car.

Couple that with some truly dumb design ideas from Elon (no lidar, no physical buttons, indicators as buttons, stupidly high repair bills due to design choices) and some even more stupid personal behaviors from him and he has just cut the legs out of his market.

EV buyers who are spending more money care about this kind of thing, budget buyers it is mostly about price.

Start with all the US held games of the World Cup next year, would make quite the statement if the Mexican and Canadian held legs sold out but the US did not. Would be noticed by Trump as well as hes been cosying up to the head of UEFA